I imagine a situation where you rent an expensive piece of machinery, and then their employee damages it, and now your left trying to collect from their insurance while being on the hook with the rental company.  

Back to the me reference I'm tiny but I can lift a 180 pound man, operate any machinery... by rugged places are you saying Wyoming ?         

Without leveraged finance there would be no facebook, no Microsoft, no i-anything, you would not be just doing it as there would be no Nikes, there would be no grocery stores as all farming would come to an end because all that machinery and seed for planting, you guessed it, financed because farmer Joe dosn't have the $250k cash for seed with another $350k for that tractor, it's financed.

One of them was struck by some heavy machinery and created about a one inch wide crack along the entire height of the wall.

Contractors buy a lot of machinery when they are optimisstic and have jobs lined up.

In my experience, often times a skilled tradesman can keep a piece of machinery going, so at least in this case mom has heat while we sort this out.

However, due to short seasons, and more mild winters, I'm struggling to think even 3-4 years from now that I'd pull anything more than $50K a year in rentals.Bills / property taxes are about $12,000 a year.The thing is, being single, and not really dying to work in this area (small town), I'm feeling rather stuck, as is all the equity.I'm currently not working, but very much want to move back to Chicago, a place I love, and start buying cash flowing properties.I'd suspect I would have about $900,000+ after all is done if it sold at $950K, considering the vast array of other things I've accumulated (wood splitters, machinery, tools, MCM furniture, rugs,).

Add to this the uniquely corrupt bureaucratic environment of Baltimore City, Maryland (where I grew up)--and its creaky, barely functioning housing-voucher machinery. 

Hahaha I love the ideas but the lot is some type of dirt business with a bunch of  dump trucks and heavy machinery parked inside of the lot with lots of dump trucks coming in in an out all the times.

If you say nothing out of pity the wet machinery of scheming in this woman's brain will be unable to grasp that and will, in her dullness, grasp for the belief that yes, she managed to get one over on you, and that, to her, is an extraordinary triumph.